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Man hopes to use stem cells from newborn son to treat Crohn’s disease

Ryan Clarke, 29, from Doncaster wants to fly to Mexico or Switzerland for the treatment

The Independent UK

Scientists made synthetic embryos — and created an ethical dilemma

Opinion: A team of researchers created synthetic mouse embryos from stem cells that lived for 8 days in a bioreactor in a lab. Their achievement raises legal and ethical concerns.

Inverse

Brave dad refused to leave A&E without blood test - results show he has terminal cancer

“They basically told me there was nothing wrong with me. I wasn’t going to sit there for hours to be told nothing was wrong.”

Manchester Evening News

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First synthetic embryos: the scientific breakthrough raises serious ethical questions

Children, even some who are too young for school, know you can’t make a baby without sperm and an egg. But a team of researchers in Israel have called into question the basics of what we teach children about the birds and the bees, and created a mouse embryo using…

The Conversation

Scientists find potential ‘cure’ for baldness

New research pins baldness to a single chemical

The Independent UK

Researchers Create Artificial Eggs, Chimeric Sperm, and Synthetic Embryos

All of these advances are in mice for now, but maybe these breakthroughs can one day be adapted as human therapies.

Reason

This breakthrough stem-cell therapy could reverse genetic blindness

Scientists have developed a new stem cell therapy that could treat certain forms of genetic blindness that have long evaded even cutting-edge methods. But this breakthrough will likely require immunosuppressive drugs to be effective.

Inverse

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World's first 'synthetic embryo': why this research is more important than you think

In what’s reported as a world-first achievement, biologists have grown mouse embryo models in the lab without the need for fertilised eggs, embryos, or even a mouse – using only stem cells and a special incubator.

The Conversation

This popular anti-aging goo can help regrow muscle — study

How muscle stem cells activate themselves to repair damaged tissue has boggled scientists. Now we know hyaluronic acid might be the key.

Inverse

Without an egg, sperm or womb, scientists create synthetic embryos in world first

Scientists have grown a synthetic embryo for the first time without fertilised eggs, and it could open doors for growing organs and tissues.

ABC News

Scientists create world’s first ‘synthetic embryos’

Researchers use stem cells from mice to form embryo-like structures with intestinal tract, beginnings of a brain, and a beating heart

The Guardian - UK

Synthetic organ cells grown in a lab for first time after 'game changing' research

Stem cell scientists have created synthetic mouse embryos without the use of sperm or egg, then grown them in an artificial womb for eight days. It could one day be used to create replacement organs

Daily Mirror

New Stem Cell Research Could Cure Baldness

Scientists may have rooted out a discovery that could put an end to baldness.

Zenger

Scientists discover possible cure for baldness that speeds up wound healing

A single chemical is central to deciding whether you go bald or not - and the discovery could also help treating wounds.

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The Independent UK

Scientists find potential ‘cure’ for baldness

New research pins baldness to a single chemical

Belfast Live

West Belfast dad's mission to recruit stem cell donors after daughter's death

"Please help us fulfil Eimear’s dying wish"

The Independent UK

Scientists find potential ‘cure’ for baldness

New research pins baldness to a single chemical

The Independent UK

Scientists are growing billions of stem cells on the ISS to help humans travel to other planets

Scientists are shooting stem cells into space, hoping to make discoveries that help people on Earth

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Do stem cells grow better in space? High-flying experiment aims to find out

In an experiment at the International Space Station, scientists are trying to find ways to produce huge batches of stem cells that can generate nearly any other type of cell and potentially be used to make treatments for many diseases.

Reuters

New Vatican policy orders foreign investment accounts closed

The Vatican on Tuesday issued an overarching investments policy to ensure they are ethical, green, low-risk, and avoid weapons industries or health sectors involved in abortion, contraception or embryonic stem cells.

Asharq Al-Awsat

High-flying Experiment: Do Stem Cells Grow Better in Space?

Researcher Dhruv Sareen’s own stem cells are now orbiting the Earth. The mission? To test whether they’ll grow better in zero gravity. Scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are trying to find new ways to produce huge batches of a type of stem cell that can generate nearly…

Tribune News Service

Mayo Clinic Minute: Bone marrow donor diversity is needed

Bone marrow transplants are procedures that infuse healthy blood stem cells into your body to replace damaged or diseased bone marrow. Just like people in need of solid organ transplants, such as hearts or kidneys, people in need of a bone marrow transplant have to find a matching donor.

The Independent UK

High-flying experiment: Do stem cells grow better in space?

Scientists are shooting stem cells into space, hoping to make discoveries that help people on Earth

Zenger

Eye, Robot: AI Robo-Doctor Speeds Up Sight-Saving Technology

A humanoid robot has quickened sight-restoring research by finding the best conditions to grow replacement retina layers from human stem cells.

Daily Mirror

Catherine Tyldesley says she's stored baby daughter's stem cells to 'protect her future'

Former Coronation Street star Catherine Tyldesley, 38, revealed she has kept the umbilical cord stem cells of her baby daughter Iris to 'protect her future'

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